We ask you to look back to our entry #20307825 and the few that follow, showing a 2015 series of unused cards–blank on the reverse–commemorating specific anniversaries, events, or notable dates.  Each card had pre-printed postage on the front.  So now we have a similar series from 2016, each with an individual reference number as well as the series number, which in this case is JP 220.  Unused.  Grade: 1

We ask you to look back to our entry #20307825 and the few that follow, showing a 2015 series of unused cards–blank on the reverse–commemorating specific anniversaries, events, or notable dates.  Each card had pre-printed postage on the front.  So now we have a similar series from 2016, each with an individual reference number as well as the series number, which in this case is JP 221.  Unused.  Grade: 1

We rarely do this, but now’s a good time for it.  This is a sealed set that we sourced from China Post in Shenzhen in 2017.  Because it’s sealed in the original packing, we do not know how many cards are inside (our estimate:  10, but no guarantee) or what they’re about.  A Google search only hints that these are probably art-related.  If we knew, the price would be double.  But we don’t, so it isn’t.  Implied Grade: 1

First, please read what we wrote for entry 20307903A.  This set includes the remaining 12 cards of seals, and one more panel of mint stamps.  Our scan shows one sample front of a card, one sample reverse of a card, and the cardboard cover similar for both parts of the entire set.  You would be buying both parts of this set together for the listed price.  Grades: 1

In the runup to the handover of Hong Kong back to China in 1997, celebrations and festivities took place all over the country.  This particular scene was in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.  The card was mailed much later, from Zhangmutou, using three stamps and with two full postmarks .  Grade: 1

See description for 20307913A.

Refer to a few recent entries (example: #20307911) and their descriptions.  This was mailed from Shenzhen much later, with stamp and fully legible postmark.  Grade: 1

From our short series of cards prepared in China for the 1997 Handover, then mailed from Shenzhen (in China) in 2019 with stamp and postmark.  Grade: 1

From our short series of cards prepared in China for the 1997 Handover, then mailed from Shenzhen (in China) in 2019 with stamp and postmark.  Grade: 1

There are 12 “First Day Covers” issued by China Post using postage meter imprint instead of stamps, and each with an actual postmark for the same day as the meter.   But even though this is a sequence of 12 covers issued in 2018, the dates on each are different and run into 2019 also.  On the back of each envelope, there’s Chinese text and a serial number.  Those serial numbers are not the same for each envelope, and they’re not sequential either.

Now, imagine that each FDC has a corresponding postcard with the same meter and postmark date as its envelope.  The serial number on the card does not match that on the FDC.  The reverse of the postcard has a graphic the same as its FDC, and with more (Chinese) text.

So all in all there are 24 pieces:  12 FDCs and 12 postcards.  In some ways they match, but in others they don’t.  No, we don’t understand this either.   Unused (of course) and Grades: 1

 

 

 

A joint issue between PR China and Spain, though China-based, with China National Philatelic set reference MC(E)-21.  Issued in June 2019.  QR codes on the backs of the cards.  Grade: 1